Zilog推出了其新的教育平台

Zilog, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IXYS Corporation, is introducing its new Educational Platform which includes all of the necessary components and software to allow engineers, instructors and students to design with freedom.

The Zilog Educational (“ZED”) Platform is an electronics development system for learning and teaching at the university level, yet can also serve the needs of students at the high school level. The core of the Zilog Educational Platform is Zilog’s Z16F2810 MCU, a16-bit Flash chip based on Zilog’s ZNEO CPU. The Platform’s robust educational capabilities allow students to learn about microcontroller architecture, language programming, wireless communication, analog-todigital conversion, sensing technologies and security encryption methods. Students can also experiment with creating industrial lighting and motor control applications. The Platform can also be configured as a data acquisition and remote control system. It ships with a command shell that allows control of the Platform without the need for additional programming.

The Platform is supported by a wide assortment of application plug-in ZED shields. These ‘shields’ are application-specific modules that form part of the larger educational system. Each of these ZED shields is designed to teach a specific subject or application. ZED shields are designed to be modular and stackable thus allowing the flexibility for teaching and experimentation. The Educational Platform’s design layout allows students to use it with intuitive ease. For ease of introduction, these shields can be operated directly from a preprogrammed command shell without requiring any additional programming. As a result, the novice engineer can develop a level of familiarity with the concepts behind each stackable shield before tackling the intricacies of in-depth programming.

“Zilog has a strong commitment to the education field, thus enabling the next generations of engineers to acquire MCU applications skills to solve real life design tasks. This best of class learning platform, which also has a series of training courses and collateral material, is ready for use by educators and their students worldwide,” commented Steve Darrough, Zilog’s VP of Marketing.

Zilog’s Educational Platform is now available, through Zilog’s online store, for educators and students as well as designers that need a unique and flexible platform in creating new solutions.